Oren Shmuel was born in Nahariya, Israel in 1970.

He is a certified folk dancing instructor and a dancer with a unique style. He lives in Kibbutz Cabri and is a computer software professional in the northern part of Israel.

Oren teaches folk dancing in local and national courses, and has worked as a choreographer since 1988.

His first steps were with his first teacher, Yosi Ezra from Nahariya.

Oren was the lead dancer of the group “Hora Nahariya " and graduated successfully from the Teachers Seminar in Haifa in 1992 with teacher Yonatan Gabay.

In the year 1992 Oren created his first dance "Hora Nahariya" which was successful and gave him the impetus to continue creating more folk dances. Oren continued with the ethnic style and composed a lot of other dances, especially to "Eretz Israel" type songs.

In the last 10 years Oren's dance creations include:

Ahavatcha, Kesem Hallili, Amen Lamilim, Rolim, Hineh Shana Overet, Taanugot, Yeled Hasadeh, Hora Nahariya, Roni-li, Farahtini, Ima Adama, Simhat Yomi, Re'ach Shel Yasmin

The dance "Hine Shana Overet" was created during 2002.

Says Oren: “The special nice voices of the “Dudaim” duo was a great inspiration to me and encouraged me to create a special dance to it”.

The dance was a big success in Israel and it is taught in many places in Israel and in some of the countries that Oren teaches in internationally.

In the last few years Oren has performed his dances in the "Carmiel Folk Dancing Festival competitions".
In 2000 Oren won the first stage with his choreography to the song "Tefilat Adam ". (For beginners).

In the last few years Oren was send to a variety of countries ( Russia, U.S.A, Europe etc.) to teach his own dances.

The dance “Kesem Halili” was created during 2003 and won the first stage in “CARMELIADA” (the most loved dance in the crowd) at the Carmiel Festival 2003.

Oren says: “The first time I heard this melody I remembered elements dances from groups from Europe (Hungary, Ireland) that I saw in one of my trips to a festival in Germany. 22 groups from Europe participated in this festival and Israel won the Second stage. The name of the group was “Hora Nahariya” and I was the soloist of this group."